What is it about?
In conversation with Dominican philosophical theologian Michael Dodds, this article explores the role the self with intentionality plays in intelligence. It critiques the eliminative reductionism of both neuroscience and AI theory for their failure to account for what we experience phenomenally, namely, the self or soul at the center of intelligent reasoning.
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Why is it important?
Despite the marvels of AI technology, we find that neither AI techies nor transhumanists work with a viable theory of intelligence. This article argues that information processing requires an intentional self to qualify as actual intelligence.
Perspectives
When engaging the question of what actually constitutes intelligence as we know it, we are knocking on the door of the human soul and our relationship to God.
Prof Ted F Peters
Graduate Theological Union
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This page is a summary of: Centering the Soul in an Age of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Theology and Science, September 2026, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2026.2725291.
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